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brought-on
[ brawt-on, -awn ]
adjective
Chiefly South Midland U.S.
- made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- (of a person) not belonging to the community; outside:
They hired themselves a brought-on man from Michigan.
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You brought-on women," said Taulbee, "thinks New Christmas is real Christmas; but it haint.
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We went to Chicago and religiously visited the Art Building, and in our nice new creaky shoes we walked past miles and miles of brought-on paintings by foreign artists, whose names we could not pronounce, in order to find some sentimental domestic subject.
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